In a steamy retelling of the well-known fairy tale, the beautiful courtesan Coco Wilde is famous for her ability to keep the wealthiest men in 19th century London hanging on her every smile. But she maintains a careful emotional...
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Auteur:Mechefske, LindySommaire:Winner, Taste Canada Gold Medal for Culinary Narrative. Commemorating the two-hundredth anniversary of Sir John A. Macdonald's birth, Sir John's Table is a refreshing look at Canada's first prime minister. Sir John's Table traverses the...
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Auteur:Eliot, GeorgeSommaire:This classic novel takes place in Lantern Yard, a slum street in an unnamed city in Northern England, during the early 19th century. There, Silas Marner, a weaver and a member of a small Calvinist congregation, is falsely accused of...
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Auteur:Bearhead, Wilson, Bearhead, CharleneSommaire:Ms. Baxter, a schoolteacher, is hoping to invite Siha Tooskin's (Paul's) grandparents to visit the classroom to offer information for her science class, and she asks Paul the respectful protocol for doing so, which in Nakota...
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Auteur:Ohlin, AlixSommaire:A New York Times Editors' Choice and an Oprah's Book Club Summer Reading Pick In this brilliant new collection, Scotiabank Giller Prize and Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize nominee Alix Ohlin skillfully displays the full range of...
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Auteur:Hesse, HermannSommaire:In ancient India a young man begins a spiritual journey that will take him into the company of the Buddha, the arms of a gorgeous courtesan and to the river that will ultimately teach him enlightenment. Hesse wrote the book to cure...
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1812. Du fait des guerres napoléoniennes, la province du Yorkshire subit la première dépression industrielle de l'Histoire. Les temps sont durs, aussi bien pour les patrons que pour les ouvriers qui, menacés par l'...
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Auteur:Foster, CarolynSommaire:She Writes is an anthology that features women writers in Canada. Elizabeth Ruth, Heather Birrell, Kristen den Hartog, Kelly Watt, Dana Bath, Teresa McWhirter and others make up this brilliant new collection of emerging literary voices...
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Emily 'Mickey' Hahn was a legendary New Yorker journalist whose vivid writing played a crucial role in opening Western eyes to the realities of life in China. At the height of the Depression, Hahn arrived in Shanghai after a...
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Auteur:Pullman, PhilipSommaire:In 1878 in London, Sally, now twenty-two and established in her own business, and her companions Frederick and Jim try to solve the mystery surrounding the unexpected collapse of a shipping firm and its ties to a sinister corporation...
- Auteur:Bushnell, CandaceSommaire:
Here is the collection of columns that inspired the addictive and multiple award-winning HBO series! Sex and the City offers a tantalizing glimpse of the openings, launch parties, and celebrity affairs that keep society amused....
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Auteur:Austen, JaneSommaire:Relegated to a small cottage by the death of their aristocratic father, passionate Marianne (sensibility) and practical Elinor (sense) are as vulnerable in love as they are in fortune. Toyed with by unscrupulous men, snubbed by wealthy...
- Auteur:Hawthorne, NathanielSommaire:
The short fiction of a writer who helped shape the course of American literature. With a determined commitment to the history of his native land, Nathaniel Hawthorne revealed, more incisively than any writer of his generation, the...
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This collection brings together twenty-one of Lardner’s best pieces, including the six Jack Keefe stories that comprise You Know Me, Al, as well as such familiar favorites as “Alibi Ike,” “Some Like Them Cold,” and “Gullible’s Travels...
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Auteur:Harry, LilianSommaire:A seemingly sleepy Devonshire village, Burracombe is in fact full of intrigue and drama. Family secrets, budding romance, cruel twists of fate and amazing friendships all play out against the backdrop of the beautiful countryside. It...
- Auteur:Ishihara, ShintaroSommaire:
Violent, sensual, and seemingly un-Japanese, the stories in Season of Violence nevertheless depict Japanese teenagers of the present in compulsive but often unconscious revolt against the moral codes of "old Japan." Yet these...
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Auteur:Lightman, Alan P.Sommaire:From the acclaimed author of the international bestseller Einstein's Dreams comes a lyrical memoir of Memphis from the 1930s through the 1960s: the music and the racism, the early days of the movies, and a powerful grandfather whose...
- Auteur:Heath, LorraineSommaire:
Lorraine Heath begins an exciting new series with a breathtaking romance about a young woman who must marry a titled gentleman to obtain her inheritance and the unsuitable man she begins to fall madly in love with. She is desperate to...
- Auteur:Townsend Warner, SylviaSommaire:
In the course of her brilliant career Sylvia Townsend Warner wrote superbly in many and diverse forms but never penned a memoir, properly speaking. However, from the 1930s to the 1970s she did contribute a series of short reminiscences...
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Auteur:Scott, ScarlettSommaire:Felix Markham, Duke of Winchelsea, has devoted his life to being the perfect statesman and raising his daughter after his beloved wife's death. But when devastating bombings on the railway leave London in an uproar, he is determined to...
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